PHP Developer
Location: GB, LND, Shoreditch
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Work at dxwdxw works exclusively with the public sector to create exemplary digital services, using agile, user-centred methodologies. Since we were founded in 2008, we’ve delivered lots of great projects, from informational and consultation sites to transactional customer services and collaborative intranets.For the right people we offer a 10am start, limitless coffee and SodaStream, a shiny new Mac to work on, and a pleasant team of geeks to work with. We’ve got a nice office near the Hallowed Roundabout, with wooden floors and space invaders on the walls, a coffee machine that makes Inception noises and lots of tasty lunch that’s minutes away. We’ve all got our own interests and specialisms, but we’re brought together by a desire to build good stuff. The atmosphere in the office is relaxed but focused, with an irreverent sense of humour and a minor caffeine dependency.We think that the best projects need the best people, and good people are hard to come by. If you’re interested in any of these roles, we’d love to hear from you. There’s no closing date for applications: posts stay open for as long as it takes us to find the right person. If you think that might be you, get in touch quickly!

Job description:
At dxw we work exclusively with clients in the public sector to create exemplary digital services, using agile, user-centred methodologies. Since we were founded in 2008, we’ve delivered lots of great projects, from informational and consultation sites to transactional customer services and collaborative intranets.We offer a 10am start, limitless coffee and sodastream, a shiny new Mac to work on, and a pleasant team of geeks to work with. We've got a nice office near Old Street Roundabout, with wooden floors and space invaders on the walls, a coffee machine that makes Inception noises and lots of tasty lunch that’s minutes away. We've all got our own interests and specialisms, but we’re brought together by a desire to build good stuff. The atmosphere in the office is relaxed but focused, with an irreverent sense of humour and a minor caffeine dependency.We think that the best projects need the best people, and good people are hard to come by. If you’re interested in this role, we’d love to hear from you. As a PHP Developer at dxw You will be responsible for various delivery and maintenance tasks across our portfolio of WordPress websites, most of which are in the public sector. You will use your technical, analytic, problem-solving and people skills to build exemplary web sites and services that exceed the expectations of our clients and their users.You will have worked as a PHP developer for several years. You may have worked for companies that use agile methodologies, or have an interest in agile principles that makes you keen to move to one that does. You are a passionate technology advocate, able to understand and explain how technology can be used to solve problems. You are keen to help to improve our development approach over time, so that we’re always doing things the best way we can. Software developmentYou will:Work with the dxw team to build products and projects using agile and user-centred methodologies throughoutAssist clients with WordPress-related technical and usage problemsContribute to the selection, deployment and development of the tools we use to build our projectsMentor members of staff whose PHP skills are less developedAdvise clients and participate in the (agile) planning processAt dxw, developers are closely involved in the planning process. We sit with clients as a team, writing and prioritising development tasks (stories) together and discussing their implementation.You will:Help clients not familiar with agile development to become acquainted with agile principles, aiding the successful delivery of projects and contributing to a wider culture change towards agile practice in governmentParticipate actively in the development communities, sharing skills and knowledge and learning from othersLearn from our successes and failures over time, contributing to process improvements when necessary; helping the whole team to innovate, learn and improve

Requirements:
The following skills are required:PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript development and debuggingFamiliarity with WordPress theme and plugin developmentGood understanding of modern accessibility, the implementation of responsive designsExperience of test-driven development and continuous integrationGood working knowledge of MySQL, Apache, Git and the Linux terminalAwareness of best practice usability and the importance of user experienceExcellent written and spoken English; good communicator The following skills are valuable:Familiarity with the tools and packages currently in our development toolchain: Grunt, Composer, Bower, NPM, Less, Bootstrap, jQueryRuby, Ruby on Rails, or other server-side development toolsFamiliarity with PHP testing tools such as PHPUnit, Mockery and BehatFamiliarity with the multiplicity of available PHP libraries and tools; able to recommend the right tool for the job Personal QualitiesArticulate and personableConfident and assertiveCompleter/finisher personalityGains genuine satisfaction from being useful and helping people to understand new conceptsGood attention to detail; well organised and able to manage time independentlyOptimistic Problem-solver 

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